Scope and Contents Scope and Contents 55 items. Accounts, receipts and promissory notes of Samuel and Nancy Patterson Byers, Augusta County, Virginia for the purchase of cloth, beef, sugar, and other household items; accounts for flour sold; record of grain raised; doctor's receipts; tuition receipts; accounts for the sharpening of shears and shoe repair; and receipts for the subscription to the Staunton Spectator; also including receipts for the settlement of James Patterson's and Ann Craig's estates, and...